Spencer Kelly
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| alma_mater = Churchill College, Cambridge
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Spencer Kelly is a British Television presenter, he was the presenter of the BBC's technology programme Click, broadcast on the BBC World News and the BBC News Channel in the United Kingdom till its end in March 2025.
Early life
Kelly, then known as Spencer Bignell, grew up in Bishopstoke, near Eastleigh in Hampshire, and attended Wyvern Secondary School in neighbouring Fair Oak, then Barton Peveril College in Eastleigh.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}} He obtained a double first in Computer Science{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m9ry/profiles/spencer-kelly|title=Spencer Kelly|work=BBC Online|accessdate=10 August 2013}} from Churchill College, Cambridge.{{Cite web |title=BBC News - Meet the Click team |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/meet_the_team/default.stm |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=news.bbc.co.uk}}
Career
It was as a student that Kelly first became involved in broadcasting, initially at Radio Glen at Southampton University, and he went on to run Cambridge University Radio.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}} After graduating, he got a job as a traffic presenter - going by the name of "Commander Kelly in the Flying Eye" on the local radio station for Portsmouth and Southampton, Ocean FM.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}} He later became the station's breakfast show host, a position he held for six years.
He joined the BBC on 2003 as one of five iPresenters (interactive presenters).{{Cite web |title=2012-Spencer Kelly - Coventry University |url=https://alumni.coventry.ac.uk/eulogies/2012-spencer-kelly |access-date=2024-06-03 |website=alumni.coventry.ac.uk}} The team pioneered new forms of interactive broadcasting, using the web, digital television and digital radio. This included interactive LiveChats, which were live interviews with celebrities, streamed across the web, in which the audience had the opportunity to ask live questions to the guests. He also began reporting for BBC World's Click Online show for two and a half years and appeared on Five's The Gadget Show. He became the presenter of the renamed Click series in January 2006, taking over from Stephen Cole{{Cite web |title=Spencer Kelly |url=https://www.speakerscorner.co.uk/awards-hosts-presenter/spencer-kelly |access-date=2024-06-03 |website=www.speakerscorner.co.uk}} till its end in October 2024.{{cite web|url=https://x.com/spenley/status/1846474074412679289|title= The only technology news that I never wanted to have to bring you. From me and @LaraLewington, thank you so much for having us.|date=16 October 2024|website=X|publisher= @Spenley}}
He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Technology by Coventry University. He is represented by the agency Curtis Brown.{{cite web|url=http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/spencer-kelly/|title=Spencer Kelly|publisher=Curtis Brown|accessdate=10 August 2013}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.spencerkelly.com/ Spencer Kelly]
- {{IMDb name|3797114}}
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Category:BBC newsreaders and journalists
Category:British reporters and correspondents
Category:English male journalists
Category:English television presenters